Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Sociology at a Basketball Game.

Of all the great work done by Erving Goffman and dramaturgical sociology, many people feel that it is the insights on the four different forms of alienation, which are most intriguing. These four types of alienation are called external preoccupation, self-consciousness, interaction-consciousness and other-consciousness. To show the importance and relevance of these four ideas of alienation it is important to test them and try to use them with examples and in context with interactions that …

…an interesting way of analyzing the four different forms of alienation and seeing how they can be used on something of a new idea or original approach. By looking at external preoccupation, self-consciousness, interaction-consciousness and other-consciousness along with some of the ideas of interaction from Giddens and Durkheim's theory on labour, one can uncover much truth to the fact that alienation can take place anywhere, anytime and in any social setting, even a basketball game.